PSY2071 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sweet 7, 18 Months, Menopause
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To outline some of the neurological underpinning of remarkable development during infancy. Later they are integrated into more complex skills: principle of the independence of systems, different body system grows at different rates. The myelin sheath is the lubricant that permits the neural impulses to speedily flow. This insulating layer may also determine which cells thrive. Infant"s sensory experiences affect both the size of neurons and the structure of their connections. Developmental scales: designed to distinguish between normally developing (typical) and atypically developing babies, earliest scales developed by gesell, based on examination of hundreds of infants to learn behaviours most common at specific ages. It covers four domains of development: adaptive behavior, motor, language, and personal-social domains. Focuses on cognition, language and motor abilities: visual recognition memory measurement: measures of visual-recognition memory, the memory and cognition of a stimulus that has been previously seen, also relate to intelligence.